Sentences with phrase «school finance lawsuit»

As noted in that blog, the case, CCJEF v. Rell, may well be the most important school finance lawsuit in Connecticut history.

blog post last Friday, Attorney General George Jepsen, with the help and support of Governor Dannel Malloy, is asking a Connecticut Superior Court judge to dismiss the most important school finance lawsuit in nearly five decades.

First District Judge Nicholas Kalokathis examined capital projects and school operations during a trial that ended last month of a broader school finance lawsuit brought by six local districts and the Wyoming Education Association.

When the history of Kansas school finance lawsuits is written — whenever that may be — two names will loom large.

Courting Failure includes nine chapters that present «data points» on school finance lawsuits — demonstrating that court rulings show little relationship to the provisions of state constitutions, that plaintiffs are unable to link resource shortfalls to achievement differences, that enormous infusions of resources don't achieve their purpose, and so on.

A Connecticut school finance lawsuit, filed more than four years ago with the high expectations of 12 towns that were challenging the way the state hands out education dollars, may not even make it to trial.

New Jersey's second - largest categorical program is Parity Remedy Aid, a court - ordered program that targets additional funds to the so - called Abbott districts — the plaintiffs in the Abbott v. Burke school finance lawsuit — to create more equity between them and the state's wealthier and academically more successful districts.

A lunchtime meeting between a Kansas Supreme Court justice and the president of the state Senate in which the ongoing school finance lawsuit against the state was discussed has prompted a request for an investigation by a judicial panel.

Wake County Superior Court Judge Howard E. Manning Jr., who oversees a 12 - year - old school finance lawsuit in the state, announced this month that a group of high schools he identified earlier as low - performing face being closed in the fall if they fail to meet specific achievement targets this spring.

Chemerinsky wrote a letter to the state Supreme Court, urging it to take the case, as did Michael Rebell, a professor of law and educational practice at Teachers College at Columbia University and Columbia Law School who litigated a New York State school financing lawsuit.

It was created after the Texas Supreme Court ruled in the state's largest school finance lawsuit that the system was imperfect, but declined to mandate any fixes to the Texas Legislature.

We were reminded of the structural problem when Connecticut's highest court resuscitated the most recent school finance lawsuit launched by CCJEF (the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding).

The state's failure to revamp its school funding system has led to the CCJEV v. Rell school finance lawsuit.

But whether that lack of perfection is good enough for all students was the question thrown to the state's highest court during arguments on the adequacy portion of the Gannon v. Kansas school finance lawsuit.

Next Monday, on September 16, 2013, Attorney General George Jepsen, with the help and support of Governor Dannel Malloy, will go before a Connecticut Superior Court judge in what could be termed a despicable attempt to dismiss the most important school finance lawsuit in nearly five decades.

In fact, the case, CCJEF v. Rell, may well be the most important school finance lawsuit in Connecticut history.

NB: One of the authors of the study, Christopher Berry, talks with Education Next about how politics influences the way states react to school finance lawsuits in a video posted here.

Chris Berry talks with Education Next about how politics influences the way states react to school finance lawsuits.

The authors of these studies, who thoughtfully use sudden changes in school spending levels generated by school finance lawsuits to construct quasi-experimental comparisons, very well may be right.

New Jersey's expansive preschool program for needy children, which is the result of a school finance lawsuit, is changing the state's education landscape and may be a harbinger of things to come in other states where school aid is being litigated.

The Kansas Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in part of the Gannon v. Kansas school finance lawsuit.

Kansas is not the only state dealing with a school finance lawsuit; similar lawsuits have been filed in Connecticut, Texas, and elsewhere.

The public charter school movement joined the school finance lawsuit in 2012 and went to trial -LSB-...]

We encourage you to read through TCSA's 2015 legislative priorities and follow the latest news in the school finance lawsuit.

Many of the school finance lawsuits have targeted only operating funds and not money for construction.

As senior attorney at the Education Law Center, she has helped lead critically important school finance lawsuits.